Mother Nature is a Modern Artist
Photos from my trip to Mount Adams are here.
Postcards from Hood River
Disclaimer: I met Mark Zoller at the Seattle Travel Show. When I told him I write for Snowshoe Magazine, he invited me up to spend some time in the area, to go rafting, snowshoeing with a local guide, and to stay at a regional B&B. I’ll have a story going out in the next issue …
Curse of the Black Gold
Yeah, Al Gore wants you to turn off your air-conditioning, go carbon neutral, use those awful fluorescent bulbs, drive a Prius, etc. etc. amen. Yeah. We get that, thanks, Al. We get that the whole global warming thing means maybe we should not burn through a whole lot of fuel to get across the planet …
Fish Thursday: Shrimp and Spinach Risotto Edition
It’s been chaos around the Nerd’s Eye View HQ lately. I was down with the plague that everyone in Seattle seems to be contracting and oh, yeah, I bought a house. For a while there, it felt like I would never be off the phone again. Mortgage brokers, escrow, long calls to the foreign office …
Evil Suburbs Round-Up
As I prepare to move to the urban/suburban frontier, the politics of the suburbs have been much on my mind. If you’re interested in the issue, here are a few links. Suburban Nation: Internet book club, anyone? “…their visionary book holds out hope that we can create “places that are as valuable as the nature …
C&P Coffee, West Seattle
“What is this, Eugene? We’re in Eugene!” I insisted. We weren’t in Eugene, we were in C&P Coffee, the place that is sure to be the new answer to that ever present Seattle question: Where do you want to go for coffee? It looks like Eugene in there, and I don’t mean in a bad …